Pleasant Grove Review | 1944-02-25 | Page 6 | How a Handful of Devildogs, Armed with One Machine Gun, Slew 125 Japanese in a Three - Hour Battle on Guadalcanal

How a Handful of Devildogs, Armed With One Machine Gun, Slew 125 Japanese in a Three -Hour Battle on Guadalcanal nUarkhiK," salil Kiijrjirmnii, "our Kim Jiiniincd mul ho Iniil to wink liictly fust to clear It. Then their iniirtaiN round tho niiico. Seven limes we had to move our nun position." posi-tion." The hiillle lusted three hours, ac-cordini! ac-cordini! In Knr.iirnwin. lie esliinalcd Hint Ihe machine i;im pumped nut 1.0011 rounds, and ll!!i dead Japs lay In front of their sector. "Warriinis were issued that cve-nlnii cve-nlnii that one of our patrols would be coming throu:h the woods after niukini! a reeonnais.'ianee In front of the lines. I. ale In the eveniuj; some 00 men a ppnmehed us. "We tliniir.lil it was our own patrol," pa-trol," naid Pie. Jack Sii:arman, "hut we weren't taking liny chances. We hollered halt, lircd ii shot over llielr heads and no one answered. Then Ihe attack beiian." Japanese l.ruons rushed Ihe barbed wire defenses and atleinpleil In scale them wilh a bridge made of poles and clnlh For each man thai fell II. seemed there were two more lo lake his place. The Japs threw ev-ei'.vlhini! ev-ei'.vlhini! at Ihe machine i;un positions, posi-tions, Inchi'lini: i'enades, dynamite, and Maine throwers. "l ive limes, when Ihe .laps were